Thursday, 8 December 2016

There
is an unwritten rule that if you want to get on you have to stay late because
everyone else stays late. Clones stay late.Drones stay late.Worker ants
stay late. Rules Players go home when they want to and that is invariably
earlier than anyone else.

It’s
the same with arriving in the office in the morning.Who says you have to arrive early?No one.It is one of those unwritten rules we need to know, so we can adapt it
to our own ends.

The
object of the exercise is to be thought to be working as hard as everyone else.
The game is to get way with being thought of as a conformist, a drone, when in
fact you don’t have to because you are so much better than that.You get your work done in record time so you
don’t have to stay late.

“People think that
leaving early or at the right time actually, the time we are contracted to
leave – will draw undue attention to us, make us seem to be shirkers or skivers.But if we leave confidently and honestly this
doesn’t happen”

If
you ever watch motivational speakers, they always put their hand up when they
ask you and the rest of the audience a question.This sets the lead and you automatically put
your hand up because there is already one hand up in the room.Silly isn’t it?But it only takes one of you to leave at a
reasonable time for everyone else to follow suit.Staying because you think everyone else is
staying is called ‘presenteeism’ and is a curse of modern office life.We all think that everyone else is watching
us, as we are watching them, to see who will be the first to break, to leave,
to incur the boss’s wrath.

It
is however a myth.The first to leave
isn’t going to be missing anything.They
will be liberating the rest of us. Leave now and set us free, please.

The
fear of missing something is very real.But if we are leading exciting and interesting lives, we know that we
are the centre of the universe and that the others who stay behind are the ones
who are in reality missing out, missing something, missing in action.

People
think that leaving early or at the right time actually, the time we are
contracted to leave – will draw undue attention to us, make us seem to be
shirkers or skivers.But if we leave confidently
and honestly this doesn’t happen. We only get viewed badly for leaving before
others if we slink out, leave by the back door, creep away into the night with
our tail between our legs.So wave
boldly and tell them, ‘Last one to leave
turns out the lights’.Whether it is
fair to point out that if they were any good at their jobs they too, like you,
would have finished their work on time is debatable.You are allowed to think it though.

(Excerpts from THE RULES OF WORK by RichardTempler Read “The Secret of
theft and perks rule” from The Rules
tomorrow on Asabeafrika)

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